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With ties between South Korea and the Trump administration strained, the South Korean government worries that Donald Trump's pursuit of a diplomatic breakthrough with Kim Jong Un may come at Seoul's expense.
With ties between South Korea and the Trump administration strained, the South Korean government worries that Donald Trump's pursuit of a diplomatic breakthrough with Kim Jong Un may come at Seoul's expense.
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<p>Senate candidate Mary Peltola speaks out as US justice department escalates criminal investigation </p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/29/alaska-senate-race-ballot-stacking-allegation-explained">Alaska Senate race: what to know about Democrats’ alleged ballot-stacking effort</a></p></li></ul><p>Mary Peltola, a Democratic Senate candidate, has denied that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent, as the US justice department escalated a criminal investigation this week with new grand jury subpoenas.</p><p>“I just want to clear the air,” Peltola said Thursday at the top of a speech in a downtown bar in Juneau, Alaska’s capital. “I knew nothing about any other candidate on the ballot except for me and the incumbent. That is all I have ever known about. I am not interested in tricking voters.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/30/alaska-democrat-senate-mary-peltola-dan-sullivan">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Business is booming for two biggest US oil companies, with both benefiting from higher prices and record production</p><p>ExxonMobil and Chevron both reported better than expected quarterly results on Friday as the oil majors benefited from higher prices and record production.</p><p>The boon for oil companies has simultaneously been a major pain point for consumers, who say the higher cost of living, especially gas prices, will affect how they vote in the upcoming midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/30/exxonmobil-chevron-q3-results">Continue reading...</a>
<p>IOPC launches independent investigation after referral by Scotland Yard over 2019 letter about Thomas Markle</p><p>Scotland Yard faces an independent investigation into its failure in 2019 to pass claims alleging wrongdoing by Thomas Markle, the father of the Duchess of Sussex, to law enforcement agencies overseas.</p><p>The force had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/29/metropolitan-police-refers-itself-to-watchdog-over-meghan-warning-letter">referred itself</a> to the Independent Office for Police Conduct over its handling of a letter written by Markle’s former wife, Roslyn Loveless. Markle, 82, is now facing claims of child sexual abuse in the Philippines, which he denies, and is under investigation by authorities there.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/30/iopc-watchdog-investigate-met-police-meghan-warning-letter">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Archaeologists uncover jewellery, cosmetics and coins in cabinet sealed since eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79</p><p>Fragments of personal objects, from makeup tools and a perfume bottle to coins and a child’s necklace, have been found tucked away in a wooden wardrobe sealed off for almost 2,000 years in the ruins of Pompeii.</p><p>The artifacts provide an intimate glimpse of daily life in the ancient Roman city before it was devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. The wardrobe was discovered in a room of a home on Via dell’Abbondanza, which was one of the most bustling streets in Pompeii.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/30/perfume-bottle-child-necklace-pompeii-wardrobe">Continue reading...</a>